getting 7* R2

So ... for the past week or so, I have been farming empires like crazy to get a chance to get 7* R2.
I have read countless threads on which teams to use, minimum gear levels and so on.

Today I finally got the last shards I needed to ugrade my RG to 7*.

I geared up, switched mods around and so on.

One thing I didn't factor into the equation was, that almost the entire team I would be fighting in the event, had just been reworked - Raid Han, Leia, Farmboy and Old Ben.

Result: No 7* R2 for me! Not even close.
First: The rebel scum managed to hit me around 10 attacks before any of my toons would move. They then proceeded to hit me 4-5 times between my first and second toon. And so on, and so on, until my entire team had been killed off.
I tried a lot of mod-switching, and accumulated 45 tries before finally giving up. It's just not possible.

So all my efforts were wasted ... yeah I know ... now I don't need to farm empire shards before my next try. Just gear. Apart from the fact that the empire toons I farmed, are not necessarily viable to do the event anymore, and therefore I may need to farm 1 or 2 new empire toons before next time.

Hopefully I'll be able to farm enough Phoenix to get Thrawn before then.

Team used:
EP (L), G9
Vader, G9
TFP, G8
Tarkin, G8
RG, G8

All had their skills maxed minus leader abilities and zetas. I know gear levels should be higher, but alot of players reported to have succeeded with a similar team.

Disclaimer: The is by no means whine. Just sharing an experience. I don't mind having to wait another cycle, but I just wish I would have thought about the consequences of the rework affecting the event.

Palp TM bonus is what got it for me, but we had a guildmate complete it yesterday after patch, and it appeared it hadn't changed for him. I wish we could go back fight them for fun so we could make guides, see changes and whatnot.

It's heavily RNG dependent. On my 60th or 70th tried I barely made it with Vader 1v1 Chewie. They did take like 10 turns before me too.

My team consisted of G10 Palps, G10 Vader, G9 TFP, G8 RG, G7 SnowT. I tried taking out R2 first but it was extremely pointless. He probably has the same amount of HP as the Rancor... Get rid of the hard hitters, Leia, Han and Luke. If you still have all of your 5 guys standing you might have a very low amount of chance to finish them off. If your Palps or Vader gets targeted by Han on his first turn, retreat. There is no point in fighting them at that point. If you can't stun more than 2 people with your first Palps Aoe - it's 99% certain that you will lose. Sometimes even if you stun them all(without R2 obviously), you could still lose. So it's really down to RNG.

I feel your pain. I've tried it at least 20-30 times each day with no result. I've had it too where it's EP and Vader vs. R2 and Chewie and R2 goes bonkers. Takes out both players with full health before I can even move again. I don't know why but I can't seem to beat him. Sadly it'll keep me from CLS too.

Never directly attacked R2. Did restarts until Vader could use crush on his first turn. Offense down on tark is essential and health up from RG.
Killed Han first then leia. R2 died to dots. Final two were chewie and Vader.

I did it today with the same team g9 - g7 today so definitely possible. Most abilities weren't maxed with the exception of palms & Vader. All level 85 and modded with 5* A grade mods, so can be done! Focus on r2 whenever you can, take him out and it gets a whole lot easier. I had 3 toons left, palps, Vader & tf pilot - him and palps are the key to winning so if one dies and you're not nearly there restart!

I feel your pain. I busted kitten and spent some money to get Stormtrooper. I've tried so much, best I've gotten is down to R2 and Chewie. Once my guild finishes this raid, gonna buff up my Tarkin. This is what I'm dealing with.

I feel your pain. I busted **** and spent some money to get Stormtrooper. I've tried so much, best I've gotten is down to R2 and Chewie. Once my guild finishes this raid, gonna buff up my Tarkin. This is what I'm dealing with.

You don't have enough offense on that team...Tarkin eventually and Vader with his culling blade but really need TFP or DT.

You need to speed up your non-tanks and hope that your tanks takes the hit long enough for you to take down r2. RG and Stormtrooper are slow and don't autotaunt in the beginning.

Appreciate the advice. I'm gonna try my best to make it work. If not, who do you think I should replace Stormtrooper with next time he comes around? Magma guard seems like an easy farm and I have him at 4* already. I also have a 5* Snowtrooper.

You don't have enough offense on that team...Tarkin eventually and Vader with his culling blade but really need TFP or DT.

You need to speed up your non-tanks and hope that your tanks takes the hit long enough for you to take down r2. RG and Stormtrooper are slow and don't autotaunt in the beginning.

Appreciate the advice. I'm gonna try my best to make it work. If not, who do you think I should replace Stormtrooper with next time he comes around? Magma guard seems like an easy farm and I have him at 4* already. I also have a 5* Snowtrooper.

Snowtrooper for offense...TFP and DT are preferrable cuz they are good in arena too. TFP is good in fleet and raids.

You don't have enough offense on that team...Tarkin eventually and Vader with his culling blade but really need TFP or DT.

You need to speed up your non-tanks and hope that your tanks takes the hit long enough for you to take down r2. RG and Stormtrooper are slow and don't autotaunt in the beginning.

Appreciate the advice. I'm gonna try my best to make it work. If not, who do you think I should replace Stormtrooper with next time he comes around? Magma guard seems like an easy farm and I have him at 4* already. I also have a 5* Snowtrooper.

Snowtrooper provides hella offense. I suggested him because he's somewhat easy to farm since he drops fairly frequently in Bronziums. Certainly easier to farm than Deathtrooper.

Get his crit % up, when he does an AOE and lands multiple crits, he gets to AOE again on his next turn. His firepower is not concentrated, but if you look at the enemy health pool as a whole, he can deplete it rather quickly. Spread 10k+ crits over a 5-man squad ... a 50k hit is nothing to sneeze at.

If he somehow fails to crit enough to reset his AOE, then his basic applies Ability Block which is also useful. And then he awards TM to his allies when the enemy starts falling. He's a superstar on the Forest Moon battles.

I like TFP too, I think he's better for concentrated firepower and speedy output of his own, and his buff immunity AOE is generally good, but he doesn't really hold up in Arena because of all the cleansers out there. TFP must have debuffs on the enemy to shine, so if the debuffs get cleansed he just stagnates. Snowtrooper does not need debuffs on the enemy to do well.